Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

All the armies of Europe combined could not by force make a track upon the Blue Ridge, or take a drink from the Ohio. If we are to be destroyed, we must do it ourselves.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts